10. So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
11. I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live.
12. Also I gave them My sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
13. But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes and they rejected My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; and My sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them in the wilderness, to annihilate them.
14. But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose sight I had brought them out.
15. Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,